Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/tangu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”).

*tangu f

1. tongs
2. pliers

• *tangijan

• Old English: tang, tange
  • Middle English: tonge, tang, tange, tongge, toonge, tounge
    • English: tong (tongs); tang
    • Scots: tang, taing
• Old Frisian: tange, tonge
  • Saterland Frisian: Tonge
  • West Frisian: tange
• Old Saxon: tanga
  • Middle Low German: tange
    • Low German: Tang
    • Plautdietsch: Tang
• Old Dutch: *tanga
  • Middle Dutch: tanghe
    • Dutch: tang
      • Afrikaans: tang
    • Limburgish: tang
• Old High German: zanga
  • Middle High German: zange
    • Bavarian: Zanga
    • Central Franconian: Zang, Zaang

      Hunsrik: Zang

    • German: Zange
    • Luxembourgish: Zaang
    • Rhine Franconian: Zang

      Palatine German: Zang

      Pennsylvania German: Zang

    • Vilamovian: cang
    • ⇒ Middle High German: hebzange
      • → Old Polish: hebcągi
        • Polish: obcęgi

• Vladimir Orel (2003) “*tanʒō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401
• Guus Kroonen (2013) “*tangō-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 509